Bearing



Patented Dec. 5, i922,

TYNE, ENGLAND; sain oook AssiofNon'ro SAID ransom."

BEARINei Application le August 26, 1921, Serial No. 495,518.' I

To all whom t may coi'icem: f

Be it known that we, CHARLns Autorinnen PARSONS and STANLEY SMITH COOK, both subjects of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and both residing at Heaton VINorks,4 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in the county of Northumberland, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Bearings, of which the follow y ing is a specication.l

lhe present invention relates to bearings and'k particularly, though not exclusively, to those ,of the" type having'a number opads v so mounted thatl they can tilt slightly and so permit a lm olf/lubricant to be automatically maintained.

In such bearings e unequal expansion orp the d ierent partslessening or 'actually' obliterating the clear,-

ances, v larly in cases where one pad of a number co-acting with the same collar obtains for anyreason an undue share of theload, and a malin obj'ectiof theV present invention is to overcome'this diliculty.`

To Vthis end the invention consists in a compensatingl bearing comprising essentially a member havingV a socket or equivalent defined by outwardly dlverging surfaces and a second member with correspondingly converging surfaces to form a plug or equivalent tting into the socket, differential eX- pansion ofsuch to cause the plug member to enter to varying depths into the socket member.

The invention further consists in a com pensating bearing pad formed of elements having different coefficients of expansion, the elementhaving the greater coefficient being formed as a socket with inclined sides and the element with the lesser coeflicient being correspondingly formed to pass a certain distance into the socket. l

The invention lnallyconsists in the improved bearingsl or details thereof hereinafter described or indicated.

Referring to the accompanying draw`V in s:--k

igure lshows a plan of one form of the invention in which the `plug and socket members are in contact over areas Jforming parts of the surface of a wedge,

Figure 2 being ar .corresponding section on difficulties arise owing to this difficulty being met with particucooperating members acting l the'line its-A Figurel, i. e.,a vline struck u.

from the centre ofrotation of the shaft or thelike;

Figures 3l and correspond respectively toA Figures 1 and 2 andshow a"modificationof.`` 4the invention 'in `which the co-acting sur- `faces are conical;l l

The remaining figures are alla sections similar to thosefo'f Figures 2 andtof other modilications of the invention; of these Figure 5 shows a two-faced socketwith l' a plugloneach side; 1 y l y,

Figure-6 on the contrary shows a twofaced plugwitha socket each side, Figure showsv aseries ofconical or surl'acesv in stepped formation Figure 8'showsa" seriesifo conical o rwedge bearing sur-face lying, vso to say, in oneiplane.; -whilefinally ka u a Figure; 9 kshowsfamodiication in which the plug; is constructed, ofxinvar' steel. 1

wWhere desirable,. correspondingl partsin' wedge'.l

the different figures are represented bythe same reference letter..

v In carrying the invention into 'ell'ect-as applied to a thrust block having pivoted each pad'mayf consist of 'a body, c, of the usual sector shape" bounded `for lexample yby radial lines,l

pads, (seeFig'ures l and 2) andcircularv arcs, c, and faced on one side with white metal, d, to form the rubbing surface; The body of' the pad so formed isprovided'at the back with a broad socket, c, having a holder for the pivot pin, z', the edges'of the plugxitself beingT bevelled to correspond with the bevels, of the socket.`

serted in an appropriate part, m, ofy the thrust block in the usual manner, while the bevelled suriaceswhich take the thrust form pad from one vside to the other. To maintain the socket member, c, and plugmem ber, it, in correct relation, 'the former is prolan outwardly bevelled edge, f, and-into this socket but for less' than its full vdepth fits acorresponding plug,

h, forming part of a wedge and run right across the vided with recesses n1- nz into which fit lugs, o1, 02, which may be dove-tailed into the` plug.

The socket itself may conveniently be made of gun-metaland the'pivot-'pin holder of steel, the dimensions Y and fcoeicients of,

, ance or plug poi expansion of the tWo parts being so chosen as to bring about the following compensating action:

@n a rise or temperature occurring, the gun-metal will expand more than the steel, thereby enlarging the Socket and allowing the steel pivot-pin holder or Wedge-like member to sink further into the gunanetal socket thereby reducing, or at any rate not increasing, the overall dimensions oiL the pad, that is, the thickness of the pad from the Working face to the actual pivot point.

'llhelmodiiication shown in Figures 3 and 4. is vin general similar to that above described but the plug member, h1, is circular and bears on the socket member, al, over the conical surface, f1. y

ln the'modilicationfshown in `Figure 5, the body of the pad, a2, faced as before with White metal, d, and also the pivot-pin holder., tmay be :formed of steel, the body of any suitable contour, circular or rectilinear, or otherwise., being provided with a protuberion as shot/n with bevelled edges, f2, and the pivot holder having corresponding edges, f3, bevelled in a similar but reversely disposed manner. Between these two steel parts a tivo-:faced intermediate memberwr, of gunemetal is arranged provided onA each of its opposite faces With a socket having its edgesA bevelled to corre spon'd With the bevels oi" the plug members, a? and It?, above mentioned. ln this contruction on heating ofthe parts the guneetal socket piece, c", will expand more than the steel plug members, each oit which will thus sink :further into its appropriate socket.

The arrangement last described is reversed in the torni shown in Figure 6, that is to say, the body, c3, raced with White metal is made oi gun-metal as is also the 1 ivot-pin holder, 7a3, these two members being` respectively 'provided with sockets oli convenient shape having bevelled edges, f4, ,415, as before, and into these sockets lits a two-faced disc, r1, or other appropriately shaped steel iitermediate piece oppositely bevelled so to correspond with the sockets oipv the gun-metal elements.

.ln the examples oic the invention above described, each element of the pad, Whether plug or socket, co-acts with a neighbour through only the minimum number of bevelled surfaces necessary 'tor support but in some cases each such surface may be replaced by a series of such surfaces, f6, arraneod in step formation as in Figure 7, or by s .nilar sur" ces, f7, arranged more or less in the same pi as in Figure S. As indicated the do red lines in Figures 7 and such sin aces Whether cone or ifi/'edge have a common apex or equivalent, f8, lying` on that side of the Working surface remote :from the pivot pin and at a distancetheretrom depending on the relation between the c0- incense efficients ot expansion or the plug and socket materials.

ln Figure 9 an example is shown in which the plug i'neinber, a, is made oit a material such as invar steel having a negligibly small coei'licient or thermal expansion in Which case the apex or equivalent7 fg, or the cone or Wedge lies on the Working surface.

ln addi ion the components of the pad., instead of being` made oi metals having` different rates of thermal expansion as described above, may be made et the same or oit different metals having the same rate or thermal expansion, unequal heatingci the parts in such modifiedccnstructions being relied on to provide the differential expansion necessary for compensation.

Claims l. [i compensating thrust-bearing come; prising essentially a member having a socket or equivalent defined by'outwardl'y diverging surfaces and a second member with correspondingly convergingk surfaces to form a plug or equivalent fitting into the socket, said members being diierentially enpansible thereby acting to cause the plugmember to enter to varying depths into-the socket member, substantially as andffor the purpose described.

2. A compensating thrust-bearing pad formed of elements having dillerent`coeli= cients of expansion, the element having the greater coefficient being formed as a socket member with inclined sides and the element With the lesser coeliicientbeing correspond- 1 ingly formed as a plug member topass a certain distance into the socket, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. form. of the pad claimed in `claim 2,

in. which one oit said members has a plurality or contact faces, substantially as'and for the purpose described.

Il. it. device ot the character described in* olv-.ding a compensating load carrying element mounted upon a support, said ele` ment and support being` of materials having diilerent coel'licients of expansion, said element having a plurality of surfaces conf verging to a common apex.

5. A compensating thrust bearing including` a member having a socket therein, and a plug member tting into said socket, said members being 4 differentially eXpansible thereby acting to cause the plug member to enter to varying depths into the socket member, substantially as described.

6. A device or the character described including a compensating load carrying element mounted upon a support, said element and support being or' materials having different coeiiicients of expansion, said element having tapered sides iittinga corresponding cluding a compensating load carrying element mounted upon a support, said element and support being of materials having'different coefficients of expansion, said element having a portion of its support engaging face, part of a conical surface.

8. A device of the character described including a compensating load carrying element mounted upon a support, said element' and support being of materials having different coeiiicients `of expansion` said load carrying element having a plurality of contact faces, each face being a portion of the surface of an imaginary cone, all of said imaginary cones having a common axis.

9. A device of the character described, including a compensating load carrying element mounted upon a support, said members being differentially expansible, said load carrying element having a plurality of bearing iaces engaging said support.

l1. A device of the character described,

including a compensating load carrying element, a support therefor, said element being seated in a depression in said support, said load carrying element having surfaces in and out of contact with said support within said depression said load carrying element and support being diierentially eX- pansilole.

12. The device oi claim 1l, said out of contact surfaces being parallel.

In testimony whereof We have signed our names to this specification.

'ennemis ALenRNoN PARSONS.

sTANLEY sMrrH oooir. 

